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...Forever 21: Dealing with America’s Fear of Aging and Death
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Mankind has tried to cheat aging and death by freezing their remains, cosmetic surgery or marrying outside their generation hoping to stay young. However, these attempts are futile and Americans cannot hold back the clock or trick death. The clock is ticking and when it stops I will die and so will you no one knows when. Although there is a great deal of research on aging and death, no one has discovered how to halt the inevitable. It is a scientific and biblical fact that human beings will age and die. All life ends in death. This paper will cover some of the issues regarding, fear of death, and fear of aging. It will also explore if Americans fear death and aging because we have no control over it or we don’t understand it.
Fear of aging can be attributed the fear of our health failing; losing our memory, independence and the energy for living our lives to the fullest (Berger, 2001). Fear of death can be attributed to not being able to speak to someone who is still experiencing it. Many fear growing older because of the onslaught of mental deterioration such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease; which are attributed to old age. (Philipchalk, 1994). Fear of aging and death is caused by America’s negative concept; it is the natural progression of life. In Strongman’s research he found that a dominant aspect of aging is......

...Name ___Erica C. Savage__________________ Faraday Induction – Lab 21
Go to
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/simulations/faraday/faraday.jnlp
and click on Run Now.
Directions
1. Screen 1
Screen 1
Getting started. Open the website listed above and on the top of the screen select the tab marked Pickup Coil.
2. Make observations & draw conclusions. Add a field meter to the default screen and drag that field meter so it measures the magnetic field in the middle of the pickup coil. Your screen should look something like what you see to the right, on Screen 1. When the light bulb lights up it indicates the electricity has been generated. Grab the magnet and move it around and observe what happens to the strength of the magnetic field and to the light bulb. Based on your observations what conditions must happen for electricity to be generated.
Answer: Observations-As the magnetic field is moved from the bottom of the coil and moves around the coil from left to the top and then the right, the strength of the magnetic field increased; therefore, it can be concluded that the strength of the magnetic field affects the amount of electricity generated.
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...Pollution: A Pressing Issue
Mikayla Schott
007848737
4 November 2013
Biology 21
Professor Poffenroth
Mikayla Schott
Pollution: A Pressing Issue
Pollution is one of the most harmful environmental issues our earth faces today. Pollution is defined as the initiation of contaminants into the environment. The most alarming factor about pollution is that it is almost entirely the result of human action. One of the most polluted nations is China; contrarily, though many Americans fight to protect the environment from such harm, there still exists pollution in our nation, today. Unfortunately, pollution affects everyone; however, children are suffering everywhere from their lack of knowledge of how to protect themselves from such harm, as well as the fact that much of the detrimental effects of pollution in children’s health occurs before they are even born, when they are still in the womb. Negative reports of reproductive health in China prompted scientists to look further. The effects of pollution on the development of children in China and America, though different, are comparable.
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...“Hit Me!”: An Analysis of Ethics in the Movie 21
Michael Breward
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Sarah Guirguis
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MIT student Ben Campbell is admitted into Harvard Medical School, but he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition. His only alternative is to win the extremely competitive Robinson Scholarship by writing an essay that will make him stand out from other applicants. Recognizing Ben’s intelligence, his professor invites him to join his card counting club. Ben joins the team with the intention to do it until he can pay his tuition. As the team’s fortune grows, Ben becomes greedy, at which point, his luck turns into adversity and he is left with nothing except an adventurous experience to dazzle the scholarship administrator; successfully securing the Robinson scholarship. Was this success truly merited, or were Ben’s unethical actions simply overlooked. Based on ethical and social welfare philosophies, it is clear that modern society would not applaud him for such behaviour.
Utilitarianism suggests that an individual’s actions ought to yield the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Ben discards this theory when he continues to count cards after acquiring sufficient funds to pay for his tuition. At this point, his motives are triggered out of greed and self-interest and no longer for the greater good. Further, Ben places his university, and ultimately his medical career in jeopardy......

...Chapter 14: SOLUTIONS TO TEXT PROBLEMS:
Quick Quizzes
1. When a competitive firm doubles the amount it sells, the price remains the same, so its total revenue doubles.
2. The price faced by a profit-maximizing firm is equal to its marginal cost because if price were above marginal cost, the firm could increase profits by increasing output, while if price were below marginal cost, the firm could increase profits by decreasing output.
A profit-maximizing firm decides to shut down in the short run when price is less than average variable cost. In the long run, a firm will exit a market when price is less than average total cost.
3. In the long run, with free entry and exit, the price in the market is equal to both a firm’s marginal cost and its average total cost, as Figure 1 shows. The firm chooses its quantity so that marginal cost equals price; doing so ensures that the firm is maximizing its profit. In the long run, entry into and exit from the industry drive the price of the good to the minimum point on the average-total-cost curve.
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Figure 1
Questions for Review
1. A competitive firm is a firm in a market in which: (1) there are many buyers and many sellers in the market; (2) the goods offered by the various sellers are largely the same; and (3) usually firms can freely enter or exit the market.
2. Figure 2 shows the cost curves for a typical firm. For a given price (such as P*), the level of output that maximizes profit is...

...So I picked the movie 21 which is inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell finds himself quietly recruited by MIT’s most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor and armed with fake ID’s, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and his friends succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. Now his challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos before it all spirals out of control.
Throughout the film two key communication elements, non-verbal and Interpersonal communication played a major role in 21. Let me define them so we all get a better understanding of these two types of communication. Non-Verbal is the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless cues between people. Now Interpersonal Communication is direct, face to face communication that occurs between two persons. It is essentially a dialogue or a conversation between two or more people.
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4.1 Evaluation of Forever 21 and its need for crowdsourcing
Forever 21 is a well-established company with a strong customer base within the younger generations from teens up to the 30s, it tailors its designs to appeal to this age group (Forever21 Inc. 2015). Crowdsourcing platforms Freelancer, WYRT and Spoonflower are not suitable for Forever 21 as they have a niche focus on innovative design. As design is a core capability of the company, it should be developed as a competitive advantage and never to be outsourced (Hirai A, 2012). WYRT also provides the service of market research through analysing trending statistics; However, given the goals and objectives of the company (refer to Appendix A), it should again work to enhance its designs, creating the trend instead of simply following. Hence these platforms would not provide much benefit to the company. Although it would be advantageous to form partnerships or sponsorships with these crowdsourcing platforms as they can be a channel to finding new talented recruits to join the company.
In context of Forever 21’s operations and future projections (refer to Appendix A), I believe the crowdsourcing website oDesk would add the most value to the business in terms of cost minimization, innovation, as well as operational efficiency and effectiveness. As pointed out previously, oDesk encompasses a global network of users and skills pool (ODesk Corp. 2015), which could complement Forever 21’s business functions to enhance......

...1. Introduction:
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21 or CMP 11 was held in Paris, France, from 30 November to 12 December 2015. It was the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The conference reached its objective, to for the first time achieve a global agreement on reduction of greenhouse emission in the Paris Agreement, which was adopted with acclamation by nearly all states. The agreement will become legally binding if at least 55 countries that represent at least 55 percent of global greenhouse emissions become a party to it through signature followed by ratification, acceptance, approval or through accession in New York between 22 April 2016 to 21 April 2017. It is expected to take effect in 2020. According to the organizing committee, the expected key result was to limit the global warming, by 2100, compared to pre-industrial to below 2 degrees Celsius.
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...INTRODUCTION
Forever 21 is an American chain of fashion retailers with its headquarters in Los Angeles and sales of $3.7 billion in 2013. Forever 21 began as a 900 square foot store in Los Angeles in 1984, and has grown to sell their clothing lines Forever 21, XXI Forever, Love 21, and Heritage in over 600 stores in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the UK. More than 60% of its apparel is manufactured in China and the average store size is 38,000 square feet. According to Adrienne Tennant, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, and Andrea Chang of the Los Angeles Times, Forever 21 is known for its trendy offerings and its economical pricing. The company sells clothing, accessories, and beauty products for women, men, and girls. The company has been involved in various controversies, ranging from labor practice issues and copyright infraction accusations to religion.
HISTORY
Forever 21 founders Do “Don” Won Chang and his wife Jin Sook Chang emigrated from South Korea to the United States in 1981.The luxurious cars of those in the retail industry influenced Don to enter the garment industry and so Fashion 21, later renamed Forever 21, was established. Don is the Chief Executive Officer and Jin Sook the Chief Merchandising Officer, with a combined net worth of $5 billion. As of September 2013, the couple ranked 264 in Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list and 90 amongst America’s wealthiest. Their two daughters joined the business in 2009, Linda leading the......

...CHAPTER 21
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
(Difficulty: E = Easy, M = Medium, and T = Tough)
Multiple Choice: Conceptual
Easy:
Merger tactics Answer: e Diff: E
[i]. Firms use defensive tactics to fight off undesired mergers. These tactics include
a. Raising antitrust issues.
b. Taking poison pills.
c. Getting a white knight to bid for the firm.
d. Repurchasing their own stock.
e. All of the statements above are correct.
Mergers Answer: d Diff: E
[ii]. Which of the following are given as reasons for the high level of merger activity in the U.S.?
a. Synergistic benefits arising from mergers.
b. Reduction in competition resulting from mergers.
c. Attempts to stabilize earnings by diversifying.
d. Statements a and c are correct.
e. All of the statements above are correct.
Mergers Answer: b Diff: E N
[iii]. Which of the following statements concerning mergers is most correct?
a. A conglomerate merger is a merger of firms in the same general industry, but for which no customer or supplier relationship exists.
b. A horizontal merger is a combination of two firms that produce the same type of good or service.
c. A congeneric merger is a merger of companies in totally different industries.
d. Statements a and c are correct.
e. None of the statements above is correct.
Merger analysis Answer: d Diff: E N
[iv]. Which of the following statements......